H'okay, so I've never done a roleplay before. Not that I'm really opposed to the idea or anything, it's just no one ever asked because I'm weird and have no friends. Well recently  knifesharpener and I got to talking about romance and how it's awesome and how ya just don't see enough of it these days et al, and he asked if I'd like to RP and I was like "I know not of these RP's." And then he was like "These are the RPs. Let me show u dem." I really didn't know what I was doing, so I just plucked a character from one of my recent stories that I thought might be fun to play with/as and we had our two characters meet and do their thing. Nothing wild, just getting to know each other a little. It was kinda cute and a lot of fun.

I always saw the flags about how people don't want creepy comments or murry purry RPs, so I thought that there was this stigma surrounding it. I really liked the concept as he presented it to me though. "It's like playing with dolls. You take two characters, put them together and see what happens." I loved that idea because that's how I write. I put a lot of work into the characters, and then a lot of plot and dialogue just sort of writes itself. I know how each character would react in a given situation, so I just give them a bunch of situations and let them do their thing. The characters play off each other and before long I have a story.

It's one of my favorite parts of the creative process and I get kind of a rush when that happens, especially when I'm at a big block and my characters figure out a way to worm around it and help me keep going even when I feel like I've got nothing. Writing is ignominious and unrewarding at times, but that's one of the moments when it really feels magical and reminds me why it is I do this. Roleplaying is that same element, character interactions driving plot in a scene, but with different people at the helm of each character. It's a fusion of creativity that makes that same kind of magic, but with even more potential thanks to having another mind at the controls. (Huzzah! The fun has been doubled!)

I feel like this is something that I could really get into. I can't count the number of times the submission notes on an artwork or story that I like have said "This came out of an RP between me and sonicscrewdriver over the weekend." And those pieces are good, sometimes very good. Lacking in structure maybe, but absolutely worth reading. Our RP took up three hours and totaled nearly 4000 words. The time just flew by and I had a blast doing it. So if anyone out there is wondering, yes! I do Role Play!